A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

If every book was as intense as this, reading literature would be even
more of a minority pursuit than it is already. A Girl Is a
Half-Formed Thing makes that rapturous lament By Grand Central
Station I Sat Down and Wept look like Hotel du Lac. But then you
wouldn’t want to go to Not I every night of the week. It’s hard to
imagine another narrative that would justify this way of telling, but
perhaps McBride can build another style from scratch for another style
of story. That’s a project for another day, when this little book is
famous.